I know it might not be keeping with the Season, but I’ve been asked by a correspondent for some suggestions of poetry from the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries on Our Lord’s Passion. I thought I’d share my response with visitors to the Ink Desk. Here ’tis:
Regarding your request, here’s the link to an article of mine on seventeenth century poets that you might find helpful:
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As for specific poems relating to the Passion from the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, here are some suggestions:
Robert Southwell – Marie Magdalen’s Complaint at Christ’s Death
William Alabaster – Upon the Ensignes of Christ’s Crucifying
John Donne – Good Friday, 1613. Riding Westward
Robert Herrick – Good Friday: Rex Tragicus, or Christ Going to His Cross
Francis Quarles – On Our Saviour’s Passion
George Herbert – The Agonie
– Love
Richard Crashaw – Charitas Nimia, or The Dear Bargain
– Christ Crucified
Abraham Cowley – Christ’s Passion
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